Genre: Drama

India. Smita is an Untouchable. She dreams of giving her young daughter an education and will go to any length to make that happen, including leaving behind all she knows in search of a better future.  Italy. Giulia works at her father’s wig workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers the family business is bankrupt. Canada. Sarah is a talented lawyer. She is about to become the head of the law firm when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. They have never met but Smita, Giulia and Sarah are bound by something very intimate and unique…

Thelma is devastated when Louis, her 12 year-old son, falls into a deep coma after an accident. When she discovers his “end-of-the-world bucket list”, she realizes how adventurous and creative Louis is. With the hope of bringing her son back, she decides to make his wishes come true…From Japan to Portugal, Thelma embarks on an adventure which gives her new reasons to live for, to reconnect with herself and her son.

Joseph is devastated when his son Emmanuel and his fiance Joachim die in an airplane crash. The couple was expecting a child from a surrogate mother. Worried about the baby’s future Joseph decides to look for the mother. Hoping to pay one last tribute to his son’s memory the solitary sixty-year-old man will embark on a journey in Belgium to meet the young woman who refuses any contact…

Official Selection at TIFF 2023 – Gala Presentation
LOVE, FAME AND FAMILY : THE FLAMBOYANT JOURNEY OF A RISING STAR OF THE DRAG QUEEN SCENE.
Simon, a rising star of Montreal drag queen scene is simultaneously facing the disappointment of two impossible loves : one of a passionate but destructive crush with Oliver and the other of a cold and distant relationship with his mother Claire, back home after 15 years of abscence.

2.5 Million of viewers
La Rochelle TV Drama Festival 2021 – Best Actress and Best Screenplay
Anna seems to have it all. A few months into dating Damien, an attractive smart and funny lawyer, she stabs him to everyone surprise. Noah, a cop, and Isabelle, her lawyer, team up to understand what happened. The more they investigate, the more they realize how manipulative, suffocative and dangerous Damien really is. What started as a single incident soon proves to be a pattern…

Paris 2052. Julia, 80 years old, had a fulfilled life. On her birthday, she reflects on the decisions and circumstances that could have led her on different paths. From the age of 17 to this day, her life was full of small but critical moments. Each was a turning point with dramatic consequences. What would have happened if she had forgotten her passport, chosen a different line at the store, driven the scooter this one time…?  Is her life a succession of coincidences and accidents or a ready-made path?

One night, after discovering that his wife cheats on him, Alexandre accidently kills her. Worried that the police would not buy the accident, he decides to hide the truth. He only shares his terrible secret with his daughter from a previous marriage, Lison. As an official investigation begins, Lison starts doubting her father’s honesty. What if he was just using her, as he manipulates everyone else around him? It is the beginning of a downward spiral…

3.7 Million of viewers
The dreams of Frank and Cécile are shaken when Sarah is born. Their little girl has Down’s syndrome. Cécile quickly overcomes her initial shock. Franck doesn’t know how to deal with the situation.  Over time, he will learn to love Sarah, unconditionally. Only then can he truly become a father…

May 1940. France is facing a disastrous military situation against the German army. Charles de Gaulle, newly appointed General, joins the Government in Paris while Yvonne, his wife, and their three children stay in the East. Facing the defeatist attitude of Pétain ready to negotiate with Hitler, de Gaulle has one purpose: continue fighting. And along with thousands of French families, Yvonne and the children are soon forced to flee the advancing German troops.
Without contact from one another, the doubt arises: will the de Gaulle family be sacrificed for the sake of France?
An outstanding destiny that will change the course of WWII & French History.

Lying on her deathbed, Barny recollects upon meeting and falling in love with Leon Morin, a priest during WWII. A communist and a free spirit, the independent young woman meets with the priest to challenge his faith. But Morin is not what she expected. The clergyman is a modern man and a humanist. Longing for her husband to come back from the prisoner camps, Barny takes comforts in her discussions with the handsome priest.  As Morin tries to teach her the beauty of Faith, Barny falls in love with him. Only too late does she realize the impossibility of her situation …

In a small place lost in space and time, there is no other option but to obey the village leaders. Jonas has always been playing by the rules. Until he meets Marta. Falling for her, Jonas will question the system and unveil its dark secrets. As he realizes they have been fed a lie, Jonas has no alternative but to try and plan an escape. To fight his destiny and save Marta from a deadly future, Jonas will prove to be more than himself. He too has secrets…

A tale of a couple of magistrates, a female judge and her husband advocate who are foster parents of a young teen whose the biological mother is in feud with the female judge, and in the same time begins an affair with the advocate.

When Paula leaves him without notice, André is stunned – and suddenly in charge of their 2 children. Out of pride, and in denial, he decides to cover the Paula’s absence while trying to reach her. But this lie can’t fool his children indefinitively. Over the course of the summer, every family member will have to terms with this absence, and grow up. Even André.

Here comes the true story of Beny, the little monkey. Captured by hunters and held in captivity in the city of Kinshasa. But Beny is rescued by Claudine André. She has dedicated her life to Bonobos, monkeys who share 98% of the human DNA! Claudine brings Beny back to her sanctuary where she starts him off on a great journey: his way back to the wild life!

Cold Rock, USA – A darkness hovers upon the town: children have gone missing over the years leaving neither a clue nor a witness. Superstitious locals talk of THE TALL MAN, a legendary, mysterious dark figure who takes children away never to be seen again. Julia (played by Jessica Biel), is a nurse living in Cold Rock who doesn’t believe in legends. Until one night, waking up with an eerie feeling she goes to her son’s bedroom and finds his bed empty. Rushing downstairs she stops dead in her tracks: a huge dark figure stands in the entrance holding her son David. Driven by pure instinct, Julia rushes after them willing to do whatever it takes to get her son back. The chase is on and with it the quest for answers: who is THE TALL MAN? What becomes of the children?

Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma – Golden Pegasus Flaiano International Prizes
Monica is a fulfilled forty-year-old woman. She has a nice life and a well balanced existence. Or so it seems. There is only one small crack – a complicated family pattern she thought she left behind her. She hardly sees her father, an obsessively religious man, or her step-sister. When he dies and her affair with her boss ends, the balance is broken. Recent events force her to question her current lifestyle – work, relationships, emotions and to come to terms with her past to find herself.

Annecy Italian Cinema Festival – Best Actress : Alexandra Pirici (2010)
Eva – 20 years old, sweet and proud like a nouvelle vague heroine – leaves a factory in Bucharest for the last time. Her contract has not been renewed and she decides the time has come to leave. Her aim is Melfi, a godforsaken town in the South of Italy, famous for its FIAT factory that divides the fields like a scar running between farming and post-industrial civilizations. Having been put up by Anna, a girl of the same age who works at FIAT, Eva starts to follow a group of women, then selects two of them, and, eventually, just one. Eva becomes her shadow, she observes her every movement, she knows her habits and routines. Eva decides to confront her prey in a dramatic face-to-face meeting, a game of cat-and-mouse in which she is, at the same time, both pitiless torturer and defenseless victim. And as Eva has completed her journey, Anna’s is only just beginning…

Thirteen-year-old Lou Bertignac is a gifted but lonely child.. When the French teacher asks the class to write an essay about a subject of their choice, Lou chooses homelessness. Bertignac conducts a serie of interviews with Nora, nicknamed No, an homeless girl she has noticed at the Gare d’Austerlitz, Although No is unpredictable and a little frightening , Lou soon cannot do without her any more…

CAIRO – Best Film – / Director – Actor (2007) / TORONTO – Official Selection (2007)
Young lieutenant Terrien (Magimel) takes command of an outpost in Algeria, a country fighting for its independence from France. He befriends a local young boy joining his platoon and a disillusioned veteran (Dupontel). War and its atrocities will quickly put his moral values to the test. Based on historical facts, Intimate Enemies presents a very contemporary look at war, exposing the process which can bring soldiers to torture prisoners or allies to become enemies.

A young man, Eric VINCENT, learns that his father, who he never knew, may have died. A few days later his wife tells him she’s pregnant. His life starts to go on the skids. Catherine HOFFMAN is investigating the murder of a man who was burned alive, whereas to remain alive François MANERI leaves to go look for his daughter. None of them will waver from their individual quest, even though it may doom them. The stakes matter less than the path that will lead them to each other. Three destinies linked by intertwined quests for identity. Three lives that can only be pried open with a same key. The key to the heart.

At the end of World War I, 20 year-old Angèle is determined to become the first woman veterinarian. Her life is an adventurous one and she becomes the object of ruthless rivalry between the man she is supposed to marry, a visionary but unscrupulous industrialist and a simple man who has withdrawn to the mountains to live among wolves, away from the madness of humans…

In the vein of Festen, actress-director Maiwenn (High Tension, The 5th Element) blurs the line between reality and fiction in this deranging and emotional movie. Pregnant with her first child, Violette (Maïwenn) decides to offer her baby a family movie. Armed with a video camera, she confronts her mother, her father, her sisters, her boyfriend… pushing everybody to the limit, including herself, in order to reveal the skeletons in the closet…
A darkly comic journey into forbidden family territory.

Hell is a rich girl from Paris’ posh neighbourhoods living in the fast lane to compensate the void of her life: sex, drugs & rock’ n’ roll. She meets her male counterpart in the person of Andrea, a seductive young man, and they both fall madly in love.
But will their passion save them from their self-destructive behaviour?

A gang of young Parisian hoodlums have an easy life pulling small time armed robberies. One day, for the needs of a customer, they enlist the services of a camera operator, Caty, to film their achievements. She soon becomes a full-time member of the gang and takes part with them in the planning of a major hold-up. But does the gang really trust her?

Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is temporary. In the clinic where she is being treated, Claire is attracted to Bernard, a man who is still traumatized after a car accident in which his wife and child were both killed. In spite of their personal tragedies, Claire and Bernard fall in love. When Bernard recovers, Claire moves into his home. Then Claire’s condition takes a turn for the worse…

In a small French colony, a drunken man kills someone. While a guillotine is being shipped in, he changes, becoming a good and popular man.

Julie Andersen, a free-spirited young hippy, seduces a serious and established professor. Drawn into her world, he falls into drugs, starts wearing jeans and loses his job. Julie gets pregnant and evolves in quite another direction, finds a job and starts to become responsible. Can they manage to live together? Anna Karina’s debut as screenwriter, producer and director.

Mimí, forced to leave his family in Sicily, finds a job in a factory in Turin, where he gets involved in an extramarital affair.

A handsome Parisian journalist named Gilles is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and bored with his current girlfriend. He escapes to his sister’s country home in rural Limoges, where he meets an equally bored (and married) woman. They start off a passionate affair, hoping to to find a few hours of sunlight… Based on a Francoise Sagan novel, the film follows the slowly changing the mood as the couple settles down in Paris.

Jean-Paul and Marianne spend lazy holidays at their villa in idyllic Southern France. However when Harry and his attrac tive young daughter Penelope show up, the dreamy summer days are suddenly filled with unspoken tension and jealousy.

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL – Official Selection
A paroled armed robber and his son plan a Las Vegas casino heist without knowing that the casino is bitterly contested by the West Coast and East Coast mobs.

Jacques Cournot lives in a Carrabean port and has no job, when one day Hendrix asks him to buy a yatch. A few days later Hendrix disappears with his boat, Cournot is accused, but freed, thanks to the intervention of Ms. Osberne. Then they discover the yatch where the ex-husband of Ms. Osberne and his fellows are under the commandment of a certain Morisson…

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Carmelle is a farm servant, and a gorgeous woman. She manages to charm a rich farmer under the guidance of the man she loves and becomes the owner’s heir.

Set in 19th Century Camargue, this poignant adaptation of Alphonse Daudet’s play, accompanied with Georges Bizet’s stirring score, follows the star-crossed loves and obsessions of charming Frédéri. This young son of wealthy farmers falls helplessly in love with a woman from Arles whom he dreams of marrying. His protective family learns that the woman, whose name is never mentioned and is only referred to as “the woman from Arles”, has already had an adventure with another man. Frédéri is crushed by this revelation. Despite the efforts of his family to help him and the affections oflovely Vivette, Frédéri cannot live without his Arlésienne…

Since Vincent saved his life years ago, Mathieu has been in debt and in his shadow. Mathieu is now used and tired to cover his friend’s affairs. When he meets Elsa, Vincent’s rejected mistress who threatens to reveal everything, Mathieu also falls under the spell of the young woman. The quiet innocent friend and loving husband soon gets caught in a web of lies and deception.  The rot has set in.  And death awaits around the corner…

Paris, 1985. Vanessa is thirteen when she meets Gabriel Matzneff. A very smart and manipulative man, the fifty-year-old renowned writer seduces the young girl. The adolescent becomes the lover and muse of a man celebrated by the cultural and political establishment. Losing herself in the relationship, she gradually starts to realize how destructive and anormal the situation is, until she finally sees Gabriel Matzneff for the predator he really is. Vanessa now has a long journey to free herself from his influence and heal from her suffering…